Lastingness by Nicholas DelBanco

Author:Nicholas DelBanco [DELBANCO, NICHOLAS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PSY034000
ISBN: 9780446574655
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2011-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

We sat together at one summer’s end

That beautiful mild woman, your close friend

And you and I, and talked of poetry.

I said: “a line will take us hours maybe;

Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Better go down upon your marrow bones

And scrub a kitchen pavement or break stones

Like an old pauper in all kinds of weather;

For to articulate sweet sounds together

Is to work harder than all these and yet

Be thought an idler by the noisy set

Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen

The martyrs call the world.”

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